{"id":3270,"date":"2012-08-09T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:37:10","slug":"sandbar-sunset-with-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Sandbar sunset (with song)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sunset_21100.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Ah, the feeling of warm sand beneath my toes and the lapping of water against the shore&#8230;this is a sweet time of year because the sun sets early enough that I can enjoy it with my little boys. Midsummer I can&#8217;t do this without risking a couple of little grouches the next day, which of course wouldn&#8217;t be fair to Mommy.<\/p>\n<p>We roamed around down by the rocks beneath the Northern Pacific bridge, watched a train cross overhead, threw a couple of rocks in the water, watched some boats go by, and then headed home for their bedtime. They love the sunset just like their Daddy&#8230;I only wish we&#8217;d remembered the frisbee!<\/p>\n<p>The Sunset Song of the Day for this photo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/%3Ccenter%3E%3Cimg%20src=\">&#8220;Down by the Sea&#8221; by Men at Work<\/a>. It&#8217;s a nice, calm, meandering tune that captured the feeling of slowly padding along the shore&#8230;enjoying the golden reflection of the setting sun across the water and the brilliant blue of the overhead sky as the sunset colors waned. <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/business-as-usual\/id209773731\" target=\"_blank\">You can investigate the song on iTunes by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the feeling of warm sand beneath my toes and the lapping of water against the shore&#8230;this is a sweet time of year because the sun sets early enough that I can enjoy it with my little boys. Midsummer I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}